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Friday, April 19, 2013

Sepia Saturday: What the?

Sepia Saturday challenges bloggers to
share family history through old photographs.

Alan’s intention
with this week’s Sepia Saturday photo of a perplexed boy holding 2 geese is to see what crazy
or odd photos we all have stashed away. I
have a couple amusing ones.

Chug! Chug! Chug!

My grandparents
Lucille (far left) and Orvin Davis (the man) are with 3 others whom I don’t
recognize.However, I think that’s
Granddaddy’s cousin Vessie Jollett Steppe who is being fed something to
drink.Can’t she hold her own
bottle?And then some boy is standing on
his head while a little girl barely makes it into the shot with her foot in the
air, high kick style.With so much
puzzling action, this photo makes me laugh whenever I look at it.

Naughty
Girl

From my Aunt Velma’s
album, here’s her buddy Virginia Cole thumbing her nose at the camera. Tsk Tsk!
That was probably far more shocking in 1925 than it is today.

Virginia Cole
Girl to immediate left is Olive Williams.
Velma on the right is cut off.
The man and other woman are unknown.

On Dasher! On Dancer!

Whoever Gertrude
and Evan Sholl were, they probably scared the children of all the family and
friends who received this Christmas card from them. Nothing says "holiday" like freshly gutted deer.

Wishing you a very Merry Deer ChristmasGertrude & Evan Sholl
found among photos belonging to Helen Killeen Parker

BANG!

Apparently gun
safety in 1919 was not the serious business it is today.

from album of Helen Killeen Parker
taken in Ocean View, Virginia
about 1919

I especially got a chuckle out of the Christmas card. What were they thinking indeed! I suppose we shouldn't be surprised at the nose thumber - dressed as she was. I've gotten so used to the ladies in dresses climbing mountains, swimming, and so forth. that I was stunned to see her in pants straddling the car.

My favorite is that Christmas card! Wow! I wonder if anyone put that card on display in their homes if they had little children around. Can't you just hear those kids?..."Mommy, Mommy, Uncle Evan killed Santa's reindeer!!"

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My name is Wendy. About twenty years ago, I helped my mother research the Jolletts. Since retiring from teaching, I have expanded my research which I share here. When I’m not looking for my own family, I index for FamilySearch and the Greene County Historical Society.
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